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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Post-Orlando, CAIR Issues New “Islamophobia” Report - Robert Spencer

by Robert Spencer

The whole “Islamophobia” enterprise is designed to intimidate people
into thinking there is something wrong with opposing jihad terror, and
this new report is no different.

Instead of announcing a program to teach young Muslims why they
should reject the understanding of Islam held by the Islamic State,
al-Qaeda, and other jihad groups, the Hamas-linked Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held a press conference Monday to unveil its latest cynical and deceptive report on “Islamophobia” in the U.S.

The whole “Islamophobia” enterprise is designed to intimidate people
into thinking there is something wrong with opposing jihad terror, and
this new report is no different. A few seconds of thought would expose
the deceptiveness of it to anyone, but Hamas-linked CAIR is banking on
the fact that most people, especially on the Left but not limited to it,
will not give the report even that much thought, but will take it at
face value, anxious to avoid being stigmatized themselves with the
“Islamophobe” label.

For those willing to consider the facts, however, here are some of the problems with the new report:

1. According to an NBC report
on CAIR’s latest “Islamophobia” salvo, “thirty-three Islamophobic
groups had access to $205 million between 2008 and 2013 to spread fear
and hatred of Muslims.” Are these groups part of one umbrella
organization? No. Are they collaborators? Some are and some aren’t. Do
they share funding? No. So $205 million (if that figure is even
accurate, which it probably isn’t) over six years spread out among 33
different and quite disparate organizations actually averages out to a
bit over a million a year per organization — a figure that is actually
not a large operating budget for a major organization, and doubtless
much smaller than that of Hamas-linked CAIR itself. (And for the record,
Jihad Watch has never had anything close to a million dollars in any
given year.)

2. “…to spread fear and hatred of Muslims.” That
is not my objective, and I would venture to say it is not the objective
of any of the other people or organizations mentioned in Hamas-linked
CAIR’s report. CAIR’s entire premise is false: that to call attention to
jihad terror activity, and to call for effective lawful responses to
it, is tantamount to spreading “fear and hatred of Muslims.”
Hamas-linked CAIR and its allies have spread this Big Lie so insistently
for so many years that it has entered the American mainstream, but that
doesn’t make it any more true than it was when they first advanced it.
If Hamas-linked CAIR had ever provided even one example of a foe of
jihad terror who was simultaneously not an “Islamophobe” in
their eyes, this charge might have more credibility. But they never
have. As far as Hamas-linked CAIR is concerned, any opposition to jihad
terror at all is “Islamophobic” and spreading “fear and hatred of
Muslims.”

3. “Attacks on mosques have increased, with 78 recorded incidents
in 2015.” Have I or any of the others mentioned in this report ever
called for attacks on mosques? No. Have any of the people who attacked
mosques ever invoked any of us to explain why they attacked the mosques?
No. Have Muslims faked “hate” attacks on mosques? Yes.
Which is more likely: that any actual attack on a mosque by a
non-Muslim vigilante idiot was provoked by our reporting about jihad
terror, or by jihad terror itself, against which the mosques in the U.S.
have not acted in any strong fashion? Hamas-linked CAIR would have you
believe that this alleged cabal of “Islamophobic” individuals and groups
is responsible for Americans’ suspicion and distrust of Muslims, when
in reality the people who are responsible for any actual such suspicion
and distrust are Omar Mateen, Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik,
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Nidal Malik Hasan, etc.

5. [sic] In an introduction to the report itself, Hamas-linked CAIR’s Nihad
Awad says: “This report makes a case that those who value constitutional
ideals like equal protection, freedom of worship, or an absence of
religious tests for those seeking public office no longer have the
luxury of just opposing the U.S. Islamophobia network’s biased
messaging.” But I don’t oppose “equal protection, freedom of worship, or
an absence of religious tests for those seeking public office,” and
again, I’d venture to say that none of the others mentioned in the
report do, either. This is a straw man designed to demonize opponents of
jihad terror, and opposition to it in general. In reality, we’re just
trying to do all we can via legal means to stop jihad activity in the
U.S. But Hamas-linked CAIR cannot acknowledge that, as to do so would
reveal its actual agenda. So it has to mischaracterize our aims.

6. The report says: “Islamophobia is a contrived fear or prejudice
fomented by the existing Eurocentric and Orientalist global power
structure. It is directed at a perceived or real Muslim threat through
the maintenance and extension of existing disparities in economic,
political, social, and cultural relations, while rationalizing the
necessity to deploy violence as a tool to achieve ‘civilizational rehab’
of the target communities (Muslim or otherwise).” Cut through this
pseudo-academic gobbledegook and you will see that it is saying that
“Islamophobia” as a “contrived fear or prejudice” fomented in response
to a “real Muslim threat.” So Hamas-linked CAIR admits that there is a
“real Muslim threat,” but claims that the “Islamophobic” individuals and
groups in its report have a wrong response to it, and indeed are
representatives of the “existing Eurocentric and Orientalist global
power structure.”

The idea that the “global power structure”
today is anything but fully in line with Hamas-linked CAIR’s point of
view today is wildly absurd. But even aside from that, nowhere does
Hamas-linked CAIR bother to explain what a proper response would be to
this “real Muslim threat.” Apparently it would be nothing more or less
than to surrender to it, since its “Islamophobia” report is designed to
defame and discredit those who are standing against it, thereby clearing
the field so that the jihad can advance unopposed and unimpeded.

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